Rejected Addresses; Or, The New Theatrum Poetarum

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ADVERTISEMENT TO THE TWENTY-SECOND EDITION.

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.

PREFACE TO EIGHTEENTH EDITION. [0b]

CONTENTS.

REJECTED ADDRESSES. [1] I. LOYAL EFFUSION.

II. THE BABY'S DEBUT. [5a]

FOOTNOTES

The authors of the Rejected Addresses

REJECTED ADDRESSES:

OR,

THE NEW THEATRUM POETARUM

By JAMES SMITH & HORACE SMITH.

 

“Fired that the House reject him!  ’Sdeath, I’ll print it,
And shame the Fools!”

Pope.

 
 

NEW EDITION.

 

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1879

“I think the ‘Rejected Addresses’ by far the best thing of the kind since ‘The Rolliad,’ and wish you had published them.  Tell the author ‘I forgive him, were he twenty times over our satirist;’ and think his imitations not at all inferior to the famous ones of Hawkins Browne.”

Lord Byron to Mr. Murray, Oct. 19, 1812.

“I like the volume of ‘Rejected Addresses’ better and better.”

Lord Byron to Mr. Murray, Oct. 19, 1812.

“I take the ‘Rejected Addresses’ to be the very best imitations (and often of difficult originals) that ever were made; and considering their great extent and variety, to indicate a talent to which I do not know where to look for a parallel.  Some few of them descend to the level of parodies; but by far the greater part are of a much higher description.”

Lord Jeffrey (in 1843), Note in Essays, iv. 470

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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